Parental involvement and the academic achievements of Hispanic students: Community literacy resources and home literacy practices among immigrant Latino families
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This paper reports relationships among communities, families, and Spanish-speaking children's language and literacy development in kindergarten and grade 1. Findings from a study of 35 communities show that communities with greater concentrations of Latinos are less likely to have printed materials, and available materials are more likely to be in Spanish. Communities with higher income and education levels have more literacy materials in English. Contrary to predictions, there are few associations among community literacy resources, frequency of children's home reading activities, and children's literacy achievement. This lack of association is due to within-community variation in home literacy practices and to schools' impact on home literacy. However, there are associations among community and family language characteristics and child literacy outcomes in Spanish and English, suggesting that at least in the early stages of literacy development, communities' influence on Spanish-speaking children's literacy development is through language-learning opportunities rather than literacy-learning opportunities per se.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | 2008 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Reese, Leslie |
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| Author | Goldenberg, Claude |
| Publisher | The Haworth Press, Inc. |
Subjects
| Subject | bilingual |
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| Subject | community |
| Subject | family |
| Subject | language |
| Subject | literacy |
| Genre | Article |
Bibliographic information
| Related Publication | Reese, L. & Goldenberg, C. (2008) Parental involvement and the academic achievements of Hispanic students: Community literacy resources and home literacy practices among immigrant Latino families. Marriage & Family Review, 43, 109 - 139. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yk761rt2367 |
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